Is Britain Ready for America’s New Political Vibe?
Ryan Bourne British politics is suddenly dominating conversation on X for all the wrong reasons. Tech titans like Elon Musk have stumbled onto the grooming-gangs scandal – a series of truly horrifying crimes that were downplayed or ignored by various authorities, in part because of fears about anti-Muslim backlash. , Musk, Bill Ackman and other Americans are lighting up X with their outrage, accusing local British politicians, the police and public authorities of throwing vulnerable girls under the […]
The Black Market Beckons: Biden’s Last-Minute Move on Nicotine
Jeffrey A. Singer Axios reports that the Biden Administration is planning an 11th-hour move to order cigarette manufacturers to reduce the nicotine content in the tobacco cigarettes they market to consumers—possibly by as much as 95 percent. The FDA proposed the rule in 2022, and the Office of Management and Budget cleared the rule proposal on January 3, 2025. The Food and Drug Administration has not yet issued the rule but may do so within the next two […]
The January 6 “Insurrection” that Wasn‘t
After the Capitol riots of January 6, 2021, it seemed that everyone learned a word they had never used before—“insurrection.” Yet, if that event was an insurrection, it was a very poor one. Typically, coup attempts do not wrap up in time for dinner.
“When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.” ― Lin Yutang
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More on the Phone Call Between Trump and Alito
On Wednesday, I wrote about the ABC News Story on Trump’s phone call with Justice Alito. On Thursday, the New York Times offered a far more in-depth, and frankly confounding story. No, not confounding for the reasons you might think. I was confounded that multiple people in Trump’s orbit are leaking information to the New York Times to sabotage an Alito clerk from a position in the administration, and in the process creating problems for the Justice. The story […]
Five Things to Know about the Supreme Court Case on Texas’ Age Verification Law, Free Speech Coalition v Paxton
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday in a case that will determine whether states can violate adults’ First Amendment rights to access sexual content online by requiring them to verify their age. The case, Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, could have far-reaching effects for every internet users’ free speech, anonymity, and privacy rights. The Supreme Court will decide whether a Texas law, HB1181, is constitutional. HB 1811 requires a huge swath of websites—many that would likely […]
How would ‘free market’ deal with this thought experiment without regulations
Company A and B release a pill to resolve issue X. Both pills will fix the issue but company A is 20% cheaper but will cause terrible side effects after 20 years which they intentionally do not reveal to the public and there is no regulations forcing them to in any way shape or form. Of course company A outsells company B and makes huge profits which they take out knowing that eventually the sales will drop after […]
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Tweet Scott Lincicome shares his big questions for 2025. A slice: We now know that this is basically what happened in 2024: China’s longstanding economic headwinds—demographics, productivity, debt, social/political control, etc.—combined with continued weakness in local property markets, depressed consumer sentiment, policy-driven industrial overcapacity, investor doubt, and heightened trade tensions to keep China’s economy in the doldrums. (Hooray, central planning!) GMU Econ alum Dominic Pino reports that “price controls have made California wildfire recovery harder.” Two slices: Another […]